Re: Need Help: Setup up a Craigslist-like email forwarding server
- From: GP lisper <spambait@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:48:18 -0700
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:25:11 +1000, <timx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
GP lisper <spambait@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Ah, the abuse side of email, what a joy...
However, there are a number of problems you will need to think
about. You need a scheme to generate unique IDs for the anonymous
address you create, but thats not too hard.
Actually, since you brought this to my attention, the address space is
rather critical to a successful system. If the address space is too
small, a spammer simply picks up the randomized address list and sends
to it -- knowing that most addresses will be reused in a short time.
A large address space is needed, and it better encode a simple
technique to track reuse, or you get yet another data storage
headache. Some more filtering should handle it.
The real problem will be protecting yourself from having the service
abused in various ways and to protect yourself from being used by
spammers or getting your mail server blacklisted. There are many
solutions, but the system begins to get more complex.
<kenny> only noobs get blacklisted </kenny>
Well the OP described a system of advertising with hidden email
addresses. That is a 1:1 mapping, so it is the same situation as a
normal domain email server. It would be very smart to run any
received-to-be-forwarded email thru a sanitizer, which you should be
doing anyway with any user input.
A fun little problem to think about. I wonder if it's worth doing.
--
One of the strokes of genius from McCarthy
was making lists the center of the language - kt
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